About a year ago I stopped making regular updates to this blog to concentrate on my Namnesia Antidote blog. While that is an ongoing effort, I am starting what should be about a year long effort to revitalize the concept of a "This Day in History" blog. I have decided to leave this blog intact and as-is, using a new "This Day in History 2.0" blog for my expanded and full version. Please feel free to email with your ideas. The two tables below should allow you to find a posting for the "Day in History" you wish to research.

Stupidest and/or Scariest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Treason, Traitors, Freedom-Fried Frenchmen "The Pentagon's Iraqi Most Wanted "Deck of Death" playing cards was a huge hit with Americans. Now, NewsMax.com is raising the ante—with the Deck of Weasels, depicting the 54 worst leaders and celebrities who opposed America and were key members of "The United Nations of Weasels."

This hot new set of playing and informational cards—which will surely be a collector's item—depicts the enemies of America and Iraq's liberation in a satirical way while revealing the evidence of their hatred—their own quotes against America!

No doubt the Deck of Weasels will enrage those included—including Michael Moore, Tim Robbins, Jacques Chirac, Barbra Streisand, Teddy Kennedy, Kofi Annan and many more. {Most of these would wear such a designation from these jokers as a badge of honor.}

Under each photo is each Weasel's quote revealing his anti-American, pro-Saddam ranting!

. . . {more paragraphs of NeoCoNazi drivel}. . .

And we have the Jokers, with their funny little hats: Jimmy Carter and Jesse Jackson." — A NewsMax.com advertisement, 9-10-03.

Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: From Politics "A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls." — Dan Quayle, vice president under President George H. W. Bush, is perhaps better known for his verbal blunders than for his politics. Let us pause and remember the ol' days of the first Bush administration, when men were men and a potato was a potatoe. Quayle is Hall of Shame member #3.

{Disclaimer: I have attempted to give credit to the many different sources that I get entries. Any failure to do so is unintentional. Any statement enclosed by brackets like these are the opinion of the blogger, A Proud Liberal.}

● 1967 - A dragging anchor tears open a pipeline at West Delta, Louisiana, releasing 6,720,000 gallons of oil.

● 1969 - Vietnam War: An estimated two million or more in U.S. participate in first national moratorium against Vietnam War. Later, a declassified Kissinger file reveals that these protests discouraged a plan by Nixon to use nuclear weapons in Vietnam. {Including A Proud Liberal, wearing a black arm band to high school classes. I managed to avoid fights with fellow student hawks.}

● 1969 - Somalian President Abdi Rashid Ali Shermarke assassinated.

● 1970 - Thirty-five construction workers are killed when a section of the new West Gate Bridge in Melbourne collapses.

● 1970 - Anwar Sadat becomes president of Egypt

● 1971 - The start of the 2500-year celebration of Iran, celebrating the birth of Persia.

● 1973 - U.S. Supreme Court refuses by a 7-2 vote to review a 1971 Federal Communications Commission directive that broadcasters, in effect, censor from the airwaves songs with "drug-oriented" lyrics. The two dissenting votes are cast by Justices William J. Brennan and William O. Douglas, who say, "The government cannot, consistent with the First Amendment, require a broadcaster to censor its music." Meanwhile alcohol (biggest killer of them all) advertising goes unabated.

● 1990 - Fidel Velazquez, head of Mexican Labor Fedreation (CTM), denounces proposals for a "free trade" agreement with the U.S., claiming it would have a catastrophic effect on both Mexican and U.S. workers.

● 1991 - District judge and reformed coke addict Judge Clarence Thomas is confirmed as the 106th associate justice of the Supreme Court, its second African-American. Immediately signs an endorsement contract with Coca-Cola.

● 1992 - In Russia, Andrei Chikatilo is found guilty of 53 serial murders. {Because he was a party member, investigators were instructed he couldn't be guilty when the investigation started some ten years earlier, this was to point of falsifying blood tests to show his non-involvement. Additionally, a reluctance to admit there could be a serial killer in the Soviet Union hindered investigations.}

● 1994 - Deposed Haitian Pres. Aristide is allowed to return to Haiti only after promising the U.S. he would not implement any of the human needs proposals that won his election and triggered a U.S.-backed military coup in 1991.

● 1997 - The first supersonic land speed record is set by Andy Green in Thrust SSC (United Kingdom).

● 1997 - The Cassini probe launches from Cape Canaveral on its way to Saturn.

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